Spacescifi

I know.... yet there are surely enough that it won't be hard to occur. For extra laughs get a basketball player.

That's kinda tall... since by and large all the girls I have worked with were usually shorter than me (5'9). Except for the 6ft ones, I have worked with those too. One thing I bet must be kinda alarming is for 'giant' Americans to walk around east Asia where people are known to be tiny. It would be a comical contrast.

That's why my scifi will include it!

I have noticed that Europeans visiting the US are often shorter than Americans. The only Russian I knew personally was female and she was both shorter and skinnier than American gals. Paler too. One Russian guy I worked with was average height and also paler than average. The reason I have heard some say is because America has more food options for health, so if Americans choose to do so, they can get big vertically... or horizontally. It's a personal choice. They are not as limited as European stores are by selection of foods. Beyond that I dunno... maybe it's all the additives we add to our foods? Genetically engineered chicken? Who knows?

I would be fine with a shirt made from living flower fabric. Sweet smelling and cool. Special casual wear. Indoors. Otherwise it will attract the bees.

That's only a bio-engieering challenge. Not impossible to solve. Easy solution? Wipe a wet rag over it occasionally. Harder but more obvious solution? If we bioengineer living breathing plant clothes then making them them able to handle human sweat seems a prerequisite.

I am amazed... http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14804965/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/shirt-made-chicken-feathers/#:~:text=Chicken feathers and rice straw,resembling wool%2C linen or cotton. https://spinnova.com/archives/news/spinnova-and-fortum-present-the-worlds-first-waste-straw-based-clothes/#:~:text=Fortum and Spinnova are showcasing,fabric on organic cotton warp. Apparently.... the better tech we have the more clothing resources we can exploit. One day we may make living plant clothes that need to be watered on occasion. Nothing a little sweat cannot help perhaps.

While we are on the subject of star wars consider how short RCS would last assuming they are not using AM thermal RCS for realism mods. According to the Star Wars Wiki, here are some of the stats for the Imperial II class of Star Destro,er : Length - 1,600 Meters Weight - 40,000,000 Tons Link - Imperial II-class Star Destroyer 1.4K views View 1 Upvoter Sponsored by Square Online Not long at all. We are talking above orbital propellant thirstyness just to change ship attitude. This ship is basically a sitting duck. It's not turning anywhere anytime fast in our universe using rocketry even if we had one.

Most who play kerbal know of the time warp feature. The one where what really takes weeks or months of space travel only is experienced as mere seconds by the player. I was curious of how dangerous or safe this could be in practice in reality. Dangerous: Turn up the time warp to light speed rates and you may have problems. Since you will experience a lightsecond of coasting in space with no abilty to dodge anything. Turn up the time warp to FTL travel rates and it only becomes worse. Data collection is curious. I suspect sensors will be flooded with data and will be unreadable since the ship will receiving loads of data every second of high time warp. Cool aspects: You can travel a lot of places now with limited propellant now, just realize home won't be the way you left it if you turn the time warp up too high or decide to.... crazily go interstellar... which is NOT recommended. Since chances of death by collision in the Oort cloud are credible. Not to mention you are on like a time machine with no reset button. What do you think? EDIT: I don't intend this as the main form of space travel in my SF. Rather it is just an older tech they still have before they discovered modern shortspace(hyperspace).... another realm where the distances of normal space are extremely compressed.

Wow. I guess the US and Russia are officially tied for outlandlish ideas. US for orion pulse propulsion project. Russia for so many smaller scale projects I would literally have to write a long list

Yes... but consider that a rolling wheel is an easier feat than powered humanoid armor because inertia helps it. Also consider that no one has done it even though it is possible. Why? It's slow... slower than wheels, and a few more mobile soldiers with rifles could wreck it. By the time it was armored enough to deflect bullets, it's still slow, and the IC engine is going to have issues with overheating unless you go big, and tanks tend to win out against mechs for mobility and traction.

Yes. Two ways I think this would play out: DC comics writes it: Superman is depressed but uses his DNA to make superman pills that both heal the virus and make people super strong for a limited amount of time. Some of the cured go rogue and Superman feels needed once he has to use his fists on temporary rogue supers. Ultimately the whole plan is called off as a bad idea, and they find out Lex or some other villain made COVID-19, they (his hero team) beat him up and take the antidote cure. I write it: Since I am willing to change the status quo by a lot more than DC comics... Lois dies of COVID-19. Superman's grief causes him to hang up the cape and start working with Luthor for a cure. Supes never becomes evil, and Lex still is Lex, but over time slowly but surely they become friends. Lex and Superman. As Lex sees that they both need each other's help for once... to beat COVID-19 once and for all. After they do all bets are off though LOL. The one thing that will have certainly changed though is that now they at least respect each other far more than they do in canon.

Uhh... thank you?

I find the vanilla version more fascinating... the one who does this:

True. If COVID-19 were a supervillan I am rather certain it's mortality rate is greater than most enemies have actually brought about, Lex included. Yeah... Superman would likely be depressed if he had to live in a COVID-19 world. Lex would find the whole situation part gratifying, part frustrating, since Superman would prove useless for once, giving him the opportunity to outshine him with a cure... if only he could, which is the frustrating part. Even Batman's billions of dollars would'nt stop COVID-19. Only science has a chance here... and we are trying.

I mean... what would he do? 'Punch' it? Thought just came to mind how limited superheroes really are. Since besides punching really hard, all Superman is good for is blowing away fires and storms... and maybe stopping earthquakes. Diseases... the worst nightmare of superheroes. They got nothing on it. What do you say?

Where are the centrifuges? Those two domes are too small to house many

Meant to say the weapons guy. Instead of the trinity that made the original work (hammy Kirk, logical but serious spock, and no nonsense tell you like it is Mcoy), we got initially rookie Captain Archer who knows not what he is doing, a southern american engineer who is just... plain. And a Vulcan who is so obviously a fanservice object that making her Vulcan only makes it worse. Vulcan traditional wear is robes anyway! She should of just worn a starfleet uniform like everyone else.

Never could like it. Characters were meh. Too many were token at best (the british enigineer and black pilot). And Tpol could be taken more seriously without the catsuit, just like Jeri Ryan... even though Jeri's acting was so good it made you not see her as merely an object. Jolene Blalock? Probably did as best she could with a boring Vulcan script. Unlike DS9 which developed EVERYBODY. It was basically ST with a bit more S and V. Unlike Disco and Picard which ramp that up to R rated levels.

So basically this? On the moon?

I tend to agree with you on space habitats being the most viable option for a permanent presence in space. However I also think it is quite possible from an engineering standpoint to create a 1g centrifuge on the moon's surface. However the cons may outweigh the pros due to gravity losses via propellant EVERY time one delivers stuff there. With space habitats you can afford to spend less propellant for shipping since everything is weightless more or less. EDIT: It would be nice if there were a such thing as a thin rad shield. Even if heavy. I once toyed with a scifi idea of fictional engineered metal that could absorb a ton of liquid hydrogen per cubic inch. Called hydron. While spacecraft using it would be incredibly heavy and dense, the propulsion system would be exotic anyway... diametric drive. A theoretical drive that would work very well in scifi.

So add some massive parachutes then? Good idea? Not so much? For Earth landing only since Mars has so sparse air it won't make a difference?

I see. So on earth there is little reason not to reuse reusable boosters. The only place a rotary rocket may prove useful is is visting an Earth clone without infrastructure. But even then a sea lander SSTO would be preferable.

I was observing Elon's problem with landing his massive SSTO, and I wanted to know how helpful chemically powered air augmented helicopter blades would be? I am not an engineer, but I am supposing that the blades could be foldable against the sides at launch, and unfurl while trying to land. Using a mix of chemical and air augmentation could power the blades, as we already know chemical has high thrust to weight ratios. Air intakes downward could lead to helping the helicopter blades above somehow. That's my two cents. What do you think? Any advantages to this? Or is it worth the risks? Or is it if it can be made to work? EDIT: I do not imagine the helicopter blades alone can land StarshipX. Rather they are to assist the rockets for a softer landing that WON'T break tiles and landing gear every time. This is to be for Earth to orbit only, basically an SSTO that ferriers orbiters and satellites to Earth orbit and goes back down. This is NOT for Mars.

The Manul is not as agile as normal cats, but it typically waits outside where prey lives (burrows or caves or tunnels), and just ambushes them before they can run away. Strictly speaking, cat-humanoids are not evolved cats as I envision them. They are literally humanoids with some cat features and traits thrown in for good measure. We could speculate to no end over their ethics, but they actually have none. The closest they come to that is following their instincts, and beyond that if they like you, fear you, or not. Ethics completely different from what we know? Unlikely... as I can only write what I know. Ultimately the choices are finite, hardly infinite: 1. Beastly ethics. Less human, more animalistic, which does not jive with civilization either. 2. Human/cat swapped modified ethics: An aversion to eating... anyone you don't know? Animals are fair game though. Weird I know. Funerals? Ugh... humans won't want to attend that. Ewww. Such a custom would be normal to them though. Part of the reason it's so absurd for us is that we are not kitted out for that, like a cat's teeth and tongue are literally made for for hunting and devouring recently killed prey. Cooking is purely optional for them. Their digestive systems can handle raw and actually prefers it. If I made their digestion require cooking their meat first? That could work perhaps... although without an instnctual drive to cook their food there will be serious problems early on, unless someone guided and told them that from the start. Cooking is part of what separates man from beast.